The 10 counties with the lowest marriage rates in N.J.

Marriage rates in New Jersey plummeted over an 11 year period from 1990 to 2011, but have made a slight comeback over the past few years, data shows.

The 2015 American Community Survey Census data reveals that married couples comprise almost 64 percent of the total number of households in the state. That number is 10 percent higher than the average in the country.

Marriage rates in the US hit an all time low in 2010, when the Census bureau found that married couples had dropped to less than half of the total number of households. The rate had reached a high in the 1950, a time when the American family structure was still considered traditional and conformed to gender roles.

But as the taboo surrounding people living together out of wedlock decreased, marriage began to take a backseat.

The List

NJ Advance Media analyzed a 2014 dataset of new marriages in every county in New Jersey to come up with a crude marriage rate. The rate was obtained by dividing the number of marriages by the population in each county and multiplying the result by 1000, to reflect the number of marriages per 1000 people.

All the counties that had a crude marriage rate lower than the median of 5.43 made it to the list.